How to Solve Your Java Performance Problems (Part 1)

Last June I saw an interesting conference talk at J-Spring given by Martijn Verburg (from jClarity) about the Performance Diagnostic Methodology (PDM), a structured approach in order to find the root cause of Java performance problems. In this post I will try to highlight the key concepts but I do recommend watching a recording of the talk from Devoxx UK. In the next part of this post, we will try to apply the theory to some problem applications.

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Git LFS: Why and how to use

Although Git is well known as Version Control System nowadays, the usage of Git LFS (Large File Storage) is often unknown to Git users. In this post I will try to explain why and when Git LFS should be used and how to use it. The source code of this post can be found at GitHub.

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Create, install, upgrade, rollback a Helm Chart (part 2)

In part 1 of this post we explained how we can create a Helm Chart for our application and how to package it. In part 2 we will cover how to install the Helm package to a Kubernetes cluster, how to upgrade our Helm Chart and how to rollback our Helm Chart.

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Create, install, upgrade, rollback a Helm Chart (part 1)

In this post we will explain how we can use Helm for installing our application. In part 1 we will take a look how we can create a Helm Chart for our application and how to package it. In part 2 we will cover how to install the Helm package to a Kubernetes cluster, how to upgrade our Helm Chart and how to rollback our Helm Chart.

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Deploy to Kubernetes with Helm

In this post we will take a closer look at Helm: a package manager for Kubernetes. We will take a look at the terminology used, install the Helm Client and Server, deploy an existing packaged application and take a look at some useful Helm commands.

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How to version your software

I often receive questions about software versioning. Although it seems something trivial and simple, when people start thinking about it, several questions pop up: How can we uniquely identify our software? Which versioning scheme should we use for our software? Which version of the software is delivered to our test or production system? … With this post I hope to give some answers to these questions and provide some of the choices you have.

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Introducing Red Hat CDK

This week, we will take a look at Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK). CDK provides a pre-built Container Development Environment based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux to help you develop container-based applications quickly. We will install CDK on a Windows machine and deploy our mykubernetesplanet Docker image from our last post to the Kubernetes cluster.

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